Music/Songbooks
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U2’s Achtung Baby: Meditations on Love in the Shadow of the Fall
$14.95 Add to cartStephen Catanzarite takes a close look at what many consider to be U2’s most fully formed album through the prisms of religion, politics, spirituality, and culture, illuminating its previously unexplo… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #49
- Author: Catanzarite, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0826427847
- Language: English
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Pretty Hate Machine
$14.95 Add to cartWhat is the world that Nine Inch Nails made, and what was the world that made Nine Inch Nails? These are the questions at the heart of this study of the band’s 1989 debut, Pretty Hate Machine.
The alb- Series: 33 1/3 #78
- Author: Carr, Daphne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0826427898
- Language: English
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Music of the Statler Brothers
$29.00 Read moreTHE MUSIC OF THE STATLER BROTHERS is an in-depth look at the musical career of The Statler Brothers’s forty-year reign as country music’s premier group. Lead singer, Don Reid, writes about each song e… [more below]
- Series: Music and the American South
- Author: Reid, Don
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 423
- Publish Date: August 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0881467510
- Language: English
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Rickenbacker Electric 12-String: The Story of the Guitars, the Music, and the Great Players
$32.95 Add to cartThe definitive history of the world’s most famous 12-string electric guitar. When the Byrds recorded their hit version of Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man ” they popularized a new sound in pop music: the e… [more below]
- Author: Bacon, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0879309881
- Language: English
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A Curious Mix of People: The Underground Scene of ’90s Austin
$27.95 Read moreA twisting path through Austin’s underground music scene in the twentieth century’s last decade, narrated by the people who were there.
It’s 1990 in Austin, Texas. The next decade will be a tipping poi
- Author: Beets, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1477328130
- Language: English
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Harlem World: How Hip Hop’s Super Showdown Changed Music Forever
$26.95 Read moreA thrilling narrative history of how one rap battle in New York transformed American culture forever.
July 3, 1981, was a pivotal night for the future of America’s newest art form: hip hop. In New York
- Author: Mael, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 142144688X
- Language: English
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Geometric Patterns, Angles and the Guitar: A ‘Chordological’ Shifting Perspective
$15.95 Add to cartA Novel Approach to Learning Guitar Chord Progressions
This treatise seeks to encourage guitarists of all levels to find their voice by experimenting and creating chordal ideas by playing notes on any
- Author: Persaud, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 26
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1615997512
- Language: English
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Essential Music Theory Answers 1-8
$24.95 Add to cartEssential Music Theory is a set of music theory books that cover all aspects of theory essential to a students musical growth. This series covers rudiments, history, harmony and counterpoint. These bo… [more below]
- Series: Essential Music Theory #18
- Author: Sarnecki, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: June 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1896499430
- Language: English
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Bob Dylan’s New York: A Historic Guide
$19.95 Add to cartA walking tour and history of Bob Dylan’s life and time in New York, from Greenwich Village to Woodstock.
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Weissman, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1438490860
- Language: English
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You Don’t Know Me But You Don’t Like Me: Phish, Insane Clown Posse, and My Misadventures with Two of Music’s Most Maligned Tribes
$18.99 Add to cartOne of Rolling Stone’s 20 Best Music Books of 2013When memoirist and head writer for The A.V. Club Nathan Rabin first set out to write about obsessed music fans, he had no idea the journey would take … [more below]
- Author: Rabin, Nathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1451626886
- Language: English
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First 50 Songs by the Beatles You Should Play on the Piano
$26.99 Add to cart(Easy Piano Personality). The First 50 Songs by the Beatles You Should Play on the Piano is a simply arranged, must-know collection of the Fab Four’s greatest hits. Each arrangement includes chords an… [more below]
- Author: Beatles, The
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 23 2016
- ISBN10: 1495069095
- Language: English
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Gin Blossoms: Suicide, Corporatism, Addiction, Creativity, and the Lessons of Doug Hopkins
$7.99 Add to cartMost of the hits from the Gin Blossoms’ 1992 breakout album, New Miserable Experience are credited to “D. Hopkins,” but the mysterious songwriter isn’t mentioned anywhere else in the album notes, or e… [more below]
- Series: Scene History
- Author: Biel, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: December 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1621069354
- Language: English
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The Music Mixing Workbook: Exercises To Help You Learn How To Mix On Any DAW
$39.95 Add to cartIf you’re new to mixing and aren’t sure what to do, or your mixes aren’t anywhere near where you’d like them to be, then The Music Mixing Workbook is exactly what you need. Written by Bobby Owsinski,
- Author: Owsinski, Bobby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1946837113
- Language: English
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A Punkhouse in the Deep South: The Oral History of 309
$19.95 Add to cartRadical subcultures in an unlikely place
Told in personal interviews, this is the collective story of a punk community in an unlikely town and region, a hub of radical counterculture that drew artists
- Author: Cometbus, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0813068525
- Language: English
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The Film Music of John Williams: Reviving Hollywood’s Classical Style
$24.95 Add to cartFrom the triumphant “Main Title” in Star Wars to the ominous bass line of Jaws, John Williams has penned some of the most unforgettable film scores-while netting more than fifty Academy Award nominati… [more below]
- Series: Wisconsin Film Studies
- Author: Audissino, Emilio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0299332349
- Language: English
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Music and Technology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMark Katz surveys the age-old interrelationship between music and technology, from prehistoric musical instruments to today’s digital playback devices.
This Very Short Introduction takes an expansive- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Katz, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0199946981
- Language: English
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Beginner Electric Guitar Lessons: Book with Online Video & Audio
$9.99 Add to cartBeginner Electric Guitar Lessons Book with Online Video and Audio Access is a step by step course designed for beginners who want to play electric guitar. Peter Vogl will take you through all of the f
- Author: Vogl, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1940301653
- Language: English
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Clawhammer Banjo from Scratch
$24.99 Add to cartSouthern Appalachian native Dan Levenson and Mel Bay Publications present Clawhammer Banjo from Scratch – A Guide for the Claw-less! This book teaches clawhammer banjo the way we play, not the way oth… [more below]
- Author: Dan Levenson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: May 22 2015
- ISBN10: 0786689099
- Language: English
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Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll: Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll
$45.00 Add to cartCompletely updated with new entries and extensive revisions of the previous 1,800, The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia Of Rock & Roll is the authoritative volume on the world’s music makers–from the one-h… [more below]
- Author: Rolling Stone, Editors
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1136
- Publish Date: November 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0743201205
- Language: English
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The Cure – Pictures of You: Foreword by Robert Smith
$45.00 Add to cartA ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022
WITH A FOREWORD BY ROBERT SMITH
The definitive collection of renowned photographer Tom Sheehan’s images of The Cure – with photographs seen here for the very first ti
- Author: Sheehan, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1802793968
- Language: English
